Surely the electric car with no need for a gearbox is simply a further step down that road
The chap with the Kia EV6 was facing the same quandry.
It's fast
It costs little to run
It does pretty much everything needed, dump run, parent, holiday, months shopping etc
It has the charisma of a dead thing.
He has now taken to calling it the Tarmac Electrolux.
Horses for courses. He was coming from an E63 estate (older 2WD model) so it was a leap.